Are you ready for the coming of the robots! Robots can undertake all sorts of repetitive tasks from building cars in factories to vacuuming your house. But how do they work?

This short course helps the understanding and the use of Industrial Robots; it covers the core concepts about kinematics, planning and control. This will help to embed the robots to be the part of digital twin.

The aim of this shortcourse is to provide delegates with the necessary knowledge and understanding for the industrial robot kinematics, trajectory, and control to solve real world industrial problems within the domain of robotics and beyond.

Learn how an industrial 6-axes anthropomorphic robot works. We will start by building its kinematic model step-by-step, then plan geometrical paths and optimize motion trajectories. We will describe calibration procedures for the arm, tool and cell.

This shortcourse aims to provide delegates with the fundamental knowledge for solving robot control problems that will be applicable in the design of robot control systems. The contents covers control theories that are essential for the control of robot manipulators as well as mobile robots.

New bonus lecture at the end: kinematic model of UR robots and calibration!

At a glance

  • Dates
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  • Duration5 days
  • LocationCranfield campus
  • Cost£900 Concessions available

Course structure

This short course is delivered over the course of nine days as half day sessions with morning lectures followed by afternoon lab exercises. Delegates are given the opportunity in lab exercises to develop distributed cloud-enabled applications using industry standard software, and to deploy their applications on an openstack-based cloud platform.

What you will learn

On successful completion delegates should be able to:

  1. Examine a given control problem and appraise the suitability of a control system as a solution.
  2. Construct Forward Kinematic and Inverse Kinematic solutions for a Multi Degree of Freedom Robots.
  3. Design a feedback control system for solving a real world situation.
  4. Construct the path and motion planning of a robot manipulator for solving a practical task.

Core content

  • Transformation of coordinates.
  • Kinematics and inverse kinematics.
  • Jacobians.
  • Manipulator Dynamics.
  • Motion Control, Proportional (P), Proportional-Integral (PI), Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) and Model Based Predictive Controller (MPC).
  • Feedback Control System.
  • Kalman Filter.
  • SLAM Motion and path planning & Mobile Robots.

Who should attend

Students and engineers interested in understanding the mathematical models of industrial robots and their most common control methods.

Speakers

Concessions

20% discount for Cranfield Alumni. 
10% discount when registering 3 or more delegates, from the same organisation at the same time.  

Accommodation fees are not included in the discount scheme. Please ask about our discount scheme at time of booking.

Accommodation options and prices

This course is non-residential. If you would like to book accommodation on campus, please contact Mitchell Hall or Cranfield Management Development Centre directly. Further information about our on campus accommodation can be found here.  Alternatively you may wish to make your own arrangements at a nearby hotel. 

Location and travel

Cranfield University is situated in Bedfordshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The University is located almost midway between the towns of Bedford and Milton Keynes and is conveniently situated between junctions 13 and 14 of the M1.

London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow airports are 30, 90 and 90 minutes respectively by car, offering superb connections to and from just about anywhere in the world. 

For further location and travel details

Location address

Cranfield University
College Road
Cranfield
Bedford
MK43 0AL

How to apply

To apply for this course please use the online application form.

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